Why no biracial rockstars in the 1950's?

BBC stands for Big Black C***, please don't ask how I know.;)

Porn is an odd thing - on one side, some big names like Heffner helped against the moral right, on the other, it remains... untasty on some things,

Notice how frequently interracial porn is like, nearly ALWAYS Black Guy + White Girl, OR White Guy + Asian Girl. Or big majority at least.
 
Not in all states. In fact, as far as I know, by 1955, only perhaps a dozen states had still banned interracial marriage{although as many as about 3/4ths of the states had admittedly experimented with these laws, starting in the 1890s.}. And that's probably an overstatement!

Loving v. Virginia was ruled in 1967. That year, interracial marriage was still illegal in 16 states, the former slave states plus Oklahoma.
 
I you want mixed-race artists, you gotta put your POD in New Orleans, Washington DC, or possibly Galveston. These were the three cities where race mixing was most common.

A thing to remember is that rock-and-roll music itself started as an "interracial marriage" between country-and-western and rhythm-and-blues, both of which had niche followings in the forties and early fifties.

When the song "Earth Angel" came out at the end of 1954, two versions surfaced. The original version, by far superior, was by the Penguins. But the Penguins were Black, and a cover version by the Crew Cuts (a White Canadian group who scored big with Sh-Boom) was often the choice of segregated radio stations.

Maybe it was a good thing that Todd Storz, the literal inventor of Top 40 radio, moved to New Orleans in 1953, where entertainers were not only allowed to be Black, but expected to be Black.
 
Porn is an odd thing - on one side, some big names like Heffner helped against the moral right, on the other, it remains... untasty on some things,

Notice how frequently interracial porn is like, nearly ALWAYS Black Guy + White Girl, OR White Guy + Asian Girl. Or big majority at least.

Notice how frequently interracial relationships (in the USA) are nearly always Black Guy + White Girl or White Guy + Asian, Hispanic, or Native American Girl. I counted exactly 2 Black Guy + Asian Girl and 0 Asian Guy + Black Girl couples in several years of living in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, cities where the sheer numbers should have made such more common....
 
Notice how frequently interracial relationships (in the USA) are nearly always Black Guy + White Girl or White Guy + Asian, Hispanic, or Native American Girl. I counted exactly 2 Black Guy + Asian Girl and 0 Asian Guy + Black Girl couples in several years of living in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, cities where the sheer numbers should have made such more common....

Good point albeit I never saw any numbers, albeit this aspect of porn had been criticised by 'race activists' as 'racist'.
 
So, just to clarify. If I invent a character (let's assume it's a "passer" although I hate to admit that this is simply to increase his mainstream popularity until his identity is revealed) that is a biracial rock star in the fifties, there are absolutely no cultural, racial, or musical butterflies?

If there are, have at it. I'm thinking a pretty straight forward hybrid of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, but maybe on guitar initially (IOTL, it was recommended to Lewis by "industry folk" that he switch to guitar when he initially failed in Nashville).
 
So, just to clarify. If I invent a character (let's assume it's a "passer" although I hate to admit that this is simply to increase his mainstream popularity until his identity is revealed) that is a biracial rock star in the fifties, there are absolutely no cultural, racial, or musical butterflies?

If there are, have at it. I'm thinking a pretty straight forward hybrid of Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, but maybe on guitar initially (IOTL, it was recommended to Lewis by "industry folk" that he switch to guitar when he initially failed in Nashville).

The dude surely will HAVE to pass for one race ultimatly, for the earlier...
 
Good point albeit I never saw any numbers, albeit this aspect of porn had been criticised by 'race activists' as 'racist'.
Actually I think the porn industry is missing out on a goldmine: tiny Asian girls getting filled with BBCs as big as their forearms... would be very dramatic!:D

But I think I better get off this topic before I say something stupid....
 
There were none because "biracial" really didn't exist, as has been alluded in this thread. You were either black or white. Not both. This attitude, to some extent, still exists today. Both of my paternal grandparents were, by modern definition "biracial" or "multiracial" but, despite my grandmother's very light skin and my grandfather's Spanish roots, both were clearly and explicitly identified as black, and this was in the northern states.

Heck, even my father, who grew up a little later, was clearly identified as "black", until the "Are you black enough?" crap started showing up. Even then, he was not identified as "both," but "neither" and was essentially outcast from both sides.
 
Here is another one about the music.

In 1955, radio mogul Alan Freed convinced Chuck Berry to list him as a co-author of the song "Maybelline" to sort of "whiten" it a little for his New York audience. It is hard to say whether the tactic had any effect, but we all know what Alan Freed's business tactics would do to his career.
 
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